prescient

adjective

Definition of prescientnext
as in cautious
having or showing awareness of and preparation for the future prescient environmentalists and politicians who long ago made sure that these beautiful areas would forever be spared from development

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Recent Examples of prescient For many, a world with machines in charge can be hard to imagine without movies and books and their sometimes prescient visions. — ABC News, 26 July 2026 My book was meant to highlight both the personal and societal issues of early literacy deprivation, while tracking the prescient issue of increasing screen time dumbing down and dehumanizing society. — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 21 July 2026 The Red Sox have surged without their injured ace, Garrett Crochet, who last pitched on April 25, the day Breslow fired manager Alex Cora and five coaches in a panic move, power play or, perhaps, a prescient vision of what a change could mean. — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 July 2026 Ackman’s misfires, though, have been offset by some prescient investments in the face of black swan events like the subprime mortgage crisis and COVID, cementing his reputation as one of the shrewdest and most daring risk-takers on Wall Street. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026 His opponent, Secretary Hillary Clinton, was prescient in her warning of what his Emmy accusations meant for our political elections. — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 17 July 2026 His radical-transparency platform reads especially prescient today. — Sean Gregory, Time, 10 July 2026 To be able to present this podcast on my brother's birthday and right before my father's birthday feels very prescient. — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 Years before the reality TV craze, Real Life is scarily prescient in its depiction of lives ruined by the presence of cameras, while also operating as a hilarious observational comedy about a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prescient
  1. cautious
  2. careful
  3. farsighted
  4. proactive
  5. visionary
  6. forward-looking
Adjective
  • Officials were urging residents to be cautious as the hurricane approached.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Despite expert consensus ranking him QB2 (31st overall), there's reason to be cautious.
    — Steve Bradshaw, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of cautious
Adjective
  • Without careful planning to reduce the constellations’ brightness, the team found that, in the most extreme case, the satellites could outnumber visible stars by a factor of 100.
    — Arielle Frommer, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Maneuvering in tight spaces requires careful judgment of each individual case — and not just about which body part is least likely to cause offense when brought into close proximity to a fellow diner.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of careful
Adjective
  • Private markets chronically undersave, leaving future generations with less capital than a farsighted society would choose to bequeath.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • In another farsighted plot point, Verne has his characters attempt a course-correction burn using firework-like rockets.
    — Neil Oseman, Space.com, 14 June 2026
Definition of farsighted
Adjective
  • Final Thoughts Powered by a faster processor and deeply integrated with proactive Gemini features, the Google Pixel Watch 5 transforms Wear OS into a truly intelligent assistant on your wrist.
    — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, without the ball, United move into a proactive 4-2-4 that blocks off passing lanes through the middle.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of proactive
Adjective
  • There’s Big Ridley, the visionary filmmaker of large-scale epics who has spent nearly 50 years creating some of the most indelible worlds in modern movies.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Combining archival and original footage, and blurring the categories of documentary essay and the poetic avant-garde, Pelechian’s visionary works revolve around a grand recurring theme of humankind’s tumultuous relationship to the natural world.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of visionary
Adjective
  • The going concern disclosure is based on a forward-looking technical accounting analysis which considers only funding that has been unconditionally secured as of the date of the assessment.
    — CBS Chicago Team, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Governments often model the tax base as stationary, but the tax base is composed of people making forward-looking decisions.
    — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of forward-looking

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